| daker hen | <zoology> The corncrake or land rail. Origin: Perh. Fr. W. Crecial the daker hen; crec a sharp noise (creg harsh, hoarse, crechian to scream) + iar hen; or cf. D. Duiken to dive, plunge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Dakin | Henry, U.S. Chemist, 1880-1952. See: Dakin's fluid, Dakin's solution, Dakin-Carrel treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dakin's fluid | A bactericidal wound irrigant. Synonym: Dakin's fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dakin's solution | A bactericidal wound irrigant. Synonym: Dakin's fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dakin-Carrel treatment | Treatment of wound surfaces by intermittent flushing with Dakin's solution. Synonym: Dakin-Carrel treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dakir | A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. See: Dicker. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dakota group | <geology> A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; so named from the region where the strata were first studied. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dakotas | <ethnology> An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; also, in part, called Sioux. Alternative forms: Dacotahs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dalapon | <chemical> A herbicide that is used mainly to kill grasses, it was a major part of Agent Orange, a defoliant used in the Vietnam War. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Dale | Sir Henry Hallett, English physiologist and Nobel laureate, 1875-1968. See: Dale reaction, Dale-Feldberg law, Schultz-Dale reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dale reaction | The contraction of an excised intestinal loop (Schultz) or of an excised strip of virginal uterus (Dale) from a sensitised animal (guinea pig) which occurs when the tissue is exposed to the specific antigen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dale-Feldberg law | An identical chemical transmitter is liberated at all the functional terminals of a single neuron. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dalen | Johan A., Swedish ophthalmologist, 1866-1940. See: Dalen-Fuchs nodules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dalen-Fuchs nodules | Collections of epithelial cells lying between Bruch's membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium in sympathetic ophthalmia and rarely in other granulomatous intraocular inflammations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dalgarno | Lynn, contemporary Australian molecular biologist. (05 Mar 2000) |